Clients
Our clients include: Private Collectors, Private Banks and their clients, Family Offices, Corporations, Museums and Foundations.
Private Collectors
1858 has the privilege of working with some of the most dynamic collectors internationally whose interests range from antiquities to works by living artists.
Our tailored services ensure that all of these clients, from the new to seasoned collector are provided with bespoke solutions to fulfill and exceed their collecting objectives.
Private Banks
1858 provides dedicated art advisory services which are fully integrated within the Banks' wealth management platform.
Family Offices
1858 offers estate planning and trust management expertise for Family Offices. We understand the complexity and specific knowledge needed when Family Offices are confronted with art related decisions. Our experts will help navigate the Family Office around the multigenerational issues and implications that art assets can bring.
Corporations
The decision to create a Corporate collection is made for a variety of reasons and results in the enhancement of corporate culture and has a dramatic effect on how stakeholders view the business.
Corporate art collections can shape and represent the public and private face of corporations. Options to build an in-house collection or sponsoring the Arts externally represent some of the ways this can be achieved.
Museums and Foundations
1858 works closely with the Curators of Private Museums and Foundations in order to enhance their collections.
Our Museum specific services include:
- Acquiring and divesting of partial or entire collections for public and private museums
- Donations to museums
- De-accessioning
- Restitution and Holocaust claims
- Managing legacies and gifts made to museums
- Exhibitions loans
- Museum Patron programs
- Identifying sponsorship opportunities
Latest Insights:
Art Theft on the Increase
A recent spate of high profile thefts indicate that art crime is on the rise. The FBI have estimated that international art crime (including fakes, thefts and forgeries) is now worth in excess of $6bn annually (accurate at the time of publication) Read more...
Artist in Focus: Gerard Richter
Spanning nearly five decades, and coinciding with the artist’s 80th birthday, Gerhard Richter: Panorama is a major retrospective exhibition at the Tate Modern that groups together significant moments of the artist’s remarkable career. Read more...
2011 Market Round Up
With Euro fears spreading off the back of a global recession, the art market continues to increasingly be seen as a viable investment compared to other asset classes. Inflation and political instability around the globe are all compelling reasons for collectors to look more closely at art as an alternative investment. Read more...
Who Topped ArtReview's Power 100?
Beijing born artist Ai Weiwei took the coveted first place in ArtReview’s Power 100 list. This year marked the tenth anniversary of ArtReview’s 'Power list'. The magazine ranks the most influential artists and players in the contemporary art scene. Read more...
Art Calendar Highlights
Paris Photo
Grand Palais
Paris
10 November - 13 November
www.parisphoto.fr
Moscow Kremlin Museums
Poiret: King of Fashion
Moscow
Until 12 January 2012
www.kremlin.museum.ru
State Hermitage Museum
Antony Gormley
St Petersburg
Until 15 January 2012
www.hermitagemuseum.org
Kunsthaus Zurich
The Nahmad Collection
Zurich
21 October - 15 January 2012
www.kunsthaus.ch
Peggy Guggenheim Collection
Themes and Variations
Venice
15 October - 1 January 2012
www.guggenheim-venice.it
Guggenheim
Maurizio Cattelan: All
New York
4 November - 22 January 2012
www.guggenheim.org
The National Gallery
Leonardo Da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan
London
9 November – 5 February 2012
www.nationalgallery.org.uk
Read more...
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